Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood

Publications

A collection of 25 exemplary projects illustrating the use of timber in internal applications. Includes residential, commercial, legal and government buildings, with detailed timber schedules, and summaries of the design, technical considerations and approaches undertaken by the architects and designers.

This resource includes studies of 18 exemplary Australian timber buildings, representing the work of some the country’s leading architects and engineers. Each study presents the building in drawings and photographs, and describes their architectural and technical context.

A collation of general and technical data of the main species commercially available from Tasmania. Each of the species listed has a usage and descriptive overview, details the resource and management of the species, and lists the various technical and specification properties of the timber and its general workability characteristics.

A series of flooring guides; from advice for selecting appropriate timber flooring types for domestic applications and varying substrates, through to detailed illustrated installation procedures. With a selection of information styles, there is a guide suitable for the experienced professional installer or the home renovator.

Timber flooring options (PDF 423.9KB) - Timber is manufactured into a range of flooring products. This illustrated guide can help you identify the ideal flooring option for your home or office.

Installing Tasmanian Strip Overlay Flooring (PDF 99.3KB) - This is a detailed guide for installing overlay strip flooring on a range of substrates. It covers all the main points you need to need to know for board selection, storage and site preparation, installation and finishing.

Research into sustainability is a developing area, and the Centre for Sustainable Architecture with Wood is constantly investigating new processes and issues in the use of timber in construction.

Forest store carbon (PDF 374.1KB) - Forestry is the only Australian industry sector that stores more greenhouse gases than it releases. In 2001, Australia's plantations and managed forests stored a net 22.7 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. This is more than half of the carbon dioxide (42.5mt) emitted by all the passenger cars in Australia in that year.

Forest products are part of your life (PDF 177.9KB) - Forest products are part of the every day life of all Australians. In 2001-02, Australia's native and plantation forests supplied more than 1 cubic metre of wood for every person in Australia, a total of about 24 million cubic metres.

Timber products use less energy (PDF 177.9KB) - Timber is the perfect, sustainable building material. It is strong, natural, renewable and has the lowest embodied energy of any major building material. It also stores atmospheric carbon. Buildings constructed from timber take less energy to make than similar brick, concrete or steel buildings.